For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
Garth GreenwellMy first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life.
Garth GreenwellI'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
Garth GreenwellI do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.
Garth Greenwell